Memorial Day 2011: How To Honor Soldiers

How not to honor soldiers on Memorial Day?

Show up with your posse and insert yourself in front of the people who are really honoring soldiers/f­allen to draw attention to yourself and away from those who really deserve it.

Palin inserted herself in the front of the RT people who were really there to honor the fallen and in doing so she disrespect­ed the dead troops.

The so-called media in this country should be ashamed of them thenselves for their feedin freenzy and the family members of the soldiers who died in wars should be angry.

An excellent article in the NY Times...
http://www­.nytimes.c­om/2011/05­/30/opinio­n/30blight­.html

I had a close relative who was a highly decorated veteran of 3 wars. A member of the 10th Mountain Division, he survived heavy combat from North Africa to Vietnam only to die as a victim of elder abuse at the hands of a corrupt attorney, presently a district judge. I wonder whether he should have bothered.

Extend a hand and say thank you.

If you really want to honor fallen soldiers then let's make sure we have no more soldiers being killed or maimed for corporate greed. Let's STOP the war in Afghanasta­n and bring our soldiers home now... not next year or next decade, but N O W.

Most of those ideas are complete and utter bullcrap. Its piddly stuff you do once a year to salve your conscience­, not make a real difference­. Want to truly remember the sacrifices of the fallen, the broken and those still among us?
1) Protest spending on 350 million dollar airplanes and 5 billion dollar ships at a time when veterans health, mental health and transition­al services are so poorly funded.
2) Everyone knows a veteran and now more people than ever know a combat veteran. Make that person a regular part of your life, thought and prayers.
3) Many of our returning soldies have gone through 2 or more tours of duty and countless horrors. We need effective counseling and treatment for anxiety and PSTD for all our returning soldiers. Write a letter a month to your Congressma­n demanding we help our vets.
4) Demand real veterans benefits such as college plans, housing plans and health plans for all vets. The post WWII boom was in large part to the growth of educationa­l and economic opportunit­ies provided by the government for our vets. If we can give $700 billion to banks, why not a fraction of that for improved services?
5) Serve in the Armed forces or Coast Guard. There is no better way to honor the service of those before you than following their example.

Have a great Memorial Day!

2/505 P.I.R.

Follow Obama's lead and go play golf

“On Memorial Day in 1945, Pulitzer prize-winn­­ing cartoonist and author Bill Mauldin told how General Lucian Truscott turned his back on hundreds of visitors and VIPs and spoke to the 12,000 dead at the Anzio-Nett­­uno cemetery in Italy. Truscott apologized to the dead for their presence there. He said everybody tells leaders it is not their fault that men get killed in war, but that every leader knows in his own heart this is not altogether true. Truscott said he hoped any soldier who died through any mistake of his would forgive him. But he realized that was asking a lot under the circumstan­­ces. Truscott did promise the dead soldiers that he would not speak about their glorious deaths because he didn’t see much glory in getting killed in your late teens or early twenties. He promised them that if in the future he ran into anybody, especially old men, who thought death in battle was glorious, he would straighten them out. He said he thought that was the least he could do.”

US special interests have slanted US foreign policy toward a losing propositio­n. We should stop supporting the usurpation of Palestinia­n land and demands from Israel and its supporters in the US for more, more, more….. The results are deadly for the sons, daughters, husbands, wives, siblings and fellow Americans; American lives are cheap for AIPAC

In Honor to Brothers in Arms.

http://dre­wrichards2­000.newsvi­ne.com/_ne­ws/2011/05­/27/673414­5-a-messag­e-on-memor­ial-day

I was thinking more in the line of getting a bus tricked out and taking the family on an expense paid trip courtesy of my PAC donors... If Grifter Sarah can make Memorial Day about her...why can't I???

"How To Honor Soldiers on Memorial Day?"

Log onto the Huffington Post and type snarky political comments, as can be witnessed by all the "honoring" below.

To honor them is to never forget them and never allow politician­s to use our armed forces as political tools. No more wars!

There is very good web site I always visit to remember those fallen during WII.
Google "WWII in color"

I told you I would never forget you and I haven't, my friend.

John Sweeney -- Killed in action, May, 1968, KheSanh, RVN, 18 years of age.